Just released #notepack, a new compact binary format for nostr notes inspired by the #nostrdb binary format, but much simpler.

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GitHub - jb55/notepack: A compact binary format and Rust library for encoding and decoding Nostr notes

A compact binary format and Rust library for encoding and decoding Nostr notes - jb55/notepack

rust docs:

notepack - Rust

notepack

spec:

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notepack/SPEC.md at master · jb55/notepack

A compact binary format and Rust library for encoding and decoding Nostr notes - jb55/notepack

cheers!

this is like the nostrdb binary note format but a bit more space efficient and network friendly. great for transferring notes over the wire. An 74kb contact list crunches to about 37kb. About half the size! sizes of strings are varint encoded, but it gets better. The first bit in the encoded varint size is used to signify that it is a binary string. It will detect any hex strings and encode them as binary and encode this hint in the size byte. You can encode the type (string/binary) and length up to 126 in a single byte (aka most things in tags). This means large contact lists are efficiently compressed: 1 byte for length + type and 32 bytes for pubkeys in tags. View quoted note →

can someone explain to me how bitchat is supposed to work when my airpods cut out when I walk 5 feet away from my computer

running notepack

#notedeck team has been busy this month...

after like 20 years of using bash i had no idea you could do this: $ bind -q glob-expand-word will show you the bindings for expanding globs in your terminal when your cursor is at the end of a glob $ *.txt<--- press <Ctrl-x-*>, or <Esc-*> in vi mode The prompt will expand to $ alice.txt bob.txt just used this because I wanted to expand the blob for a command but not use all the arguments. awesome.

nostr is pretty much ideal for vibe coding. you can rapidly test product ideas, and if they are good they can quickly be integrated into the wider network. it doesn't matter if the vibe coded app is good client, what matters is the experience it showcases and the data it generates. View quoted note →

the trick to productivity is ignoring emails for about a week or forever

when browsing through relay feeds... one thing that is interesting is that even if there is lots of duplicate content, not all relays have all notes, so you end up seeing notes you might have missed if you were just on relays that have "everything". this is still not the greatest discovery mechanism, but its cool that some clients are making it easier to explore the network this way. View quoted note →

I like how

Jumble

A user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds

makes browsing relays super easy. i want to steal some ideas here.

have you yak'd yet?

YakBak - Voice Messages on Nostr

Record and share voice messages with your friends and followers on the Nostr network. A simple, decentralized voice messaging app.

#foodstr

maybe looks a bit better when its smoother

more improvements to our fullscreen media viewer. coded a fun fullscreen animation